Packed lunches
Struggling for ideas for a healthy packed lunch?
Change4life have some great tips and easy to prepare ideas based on the Eatwell Guide.
Also make reference to our Packed Lunch Guidance.
Food Science
Lucy from Marks and Spencer’s came in and taught us about the science that goes into their famous melt-in-the-middle puddings. We learnt about emulsifiers and the role these play in the pudding. I think our favourite part was the taste test. What a great job that would be!
STEM Project
The following pictures sum up our project. After finding out how elastic band cars work, we designed and planned our own. The children had to make decisions about the size of the wheels, type of elastic band and the style of the frame. Each group planned something different which was good to see!
We began making the frame and then added the mounts for the axles. When we tested out the axles, we discovered a problem – can your child tell you what it was? So we found some different axles to use and carefully measured, marked and sawed these. After some gluing of the wheels, the cars were ready for their power source – the elastic band. Can your child explain to you how the elastic band makes the car work?
We were so excited to test the cars! Unfortunately, they didn’t work as well as we had hoped. There were many things wrong including wheel-spinning, glue stopping the wheels from spinning, axles which were too short, wheels falling off…
However, Year 3 were resilient and resourceful and managed to fix all these problems themselves and improved the performance of the car! I was so proud of how well they worked together to solve these problems.
When they were finally ready, we had a competition and the winning team’s car went over one and a half metres!
Well done, Year 3!
The end of our ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ topic
To finish off our topic, we designed, made and played ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ board games.
Gymnastics
Last week, we learnt how to make different shapes using our bodies. We practised these on the floor. This week, we transferred these to off the ground. Some shapes were a lot harder to make off-ground! The shapes we learnt are: Pike, Straight, Arch, Dish, Straddle, Star and Tuck. Can your child say which shapes they can see above?
Class Assembly
Our class assembly is tomorrow at 2:40pm!
York’s Chocolate Story
We had a great time yesterday at York’s Chocolate Story. We learnt about the history of chocolate and how York has played a huge part in its history. We were introduced to the founding families of confectionery companies such as the Rowntree family, the Fry family and the Terry family. We learnt about jobs at the factories and what factory life was like. Did you know that the Rowntree factory in York has its own fire department? York still plays a big part in chocolate production in the UK – did you know that 6,000,000 KitKats are made each day in York?
Here are some pictures to show you some of our exciting day.
Chocolate Tasting
– When we held our noses, we couldn’t taste it!
– Not everyone enjoyed the very dark chocolate!
We made chocolate lollies!
We watched the chocolatier make chocolates.
Jobs in the factory
– The women are putting the foil on chocolate eggs.
– The man in checking the quality of the cocoa beans.
Getting ready to make lickable wallpaper – ask your child why they had to wear blue.
Happy with their creations.
We walked past York Minster and one group took a stroll down The Shambles.
Anti-bullying tips
Thank you, Emma (Year 2) for recommending CBBC for lots of Anti-Bullying Week advice.
‘Power for good’
Next week is national Anti-Bullying Week.
The theme this year is ‘Power for Good‘ with the following key aims:
- To support children and young people to use their Power for Good – by understanding the ways in which they are powerful and encouraging individual and collective action to stop bullying and create the best world possible.
- To help parents and carers to use their Power for Good – through supporting children with issues relating to bullying and working together with schools to stop bullying.
- To encourage all teachers, school support staff and youth workers to use their Power for Good– by valuing the difference they can make in a child’s life, and taking individual and collective action to prevent bullying and create safe environments where children can thrive.
Our school definition has recently been reviewed by the School Council and remains unchanged.
‘Bullying is when you hurt someone, physically or emotionally, several times on purpose.’
We also encourage children to use their ‘Power for Good’, if they were to experience or witness bullying, by using another STOP message, start telling other people.
In class, children will discuss these aspects of bullying:
- Our definition of bullying (above)
- Types of bullying – cyber-bullying and prejudice-based bullying related to gender, sexual orientation, race, religion and belief, special educational need and disability
- What to do if children experience bullying. The key message is to tell someone (start telling other people)
Recently the School Council responded to this question, ‘What would you do if you were bullied‘?
- ‘Start telling other people – tell someone who I trust and who I can talk to.’
- ‘I would tell someone I trust (family member, member of staff or friend).’
- ‘If I were bullied, I’d tell my parents, a friend, a teacher and if nothing changed I would phone ChildLine (08001111).’
- ‘I’d tell a teacher, maybe a friend and put in a worry in the ‘worry box’. Also, I’d tell a parent.’
- ‘I would tell anyone I trust: my friends, my mum or dad or a member of staff. They could sort it straight away.’
- ‘I’d tell my mummy and daddy.’
All classes have access to their class SEAL box or a whole school worry box where they can tell an adult any concerns about bullying or any other issues.
For further support, bullying resources can be found at…
- http://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/resources/disablist-bullying/resources-for-parents/
- http://www.childline.org.uk/explore/bullying/pages/bullying.aspx
- http://www.bullying.co.uk/advice-for-parents/
- http://www.youngminds.org.uk/for_parents/worried_about_your_child/bullying
Christmas dinner themed menu
Catering Leeds, our school meal provider, will be running a special Christmas themed menu on Thursday 15 December.
Please contact the office, by 30 November, if your child would like a school dinner on this day.